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Article 9

We are unlikely friends. She has blond hair; I have brown.  She’s tall; I’m short.  I’m in my 20s, she’s double that. When I needed something; she was assigned to help me.   But we love to talk.  We...

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To you…

To you … who are desperate for peaceTo you … who cannot sleep at nightTo you … who want what could have beenTo you … who wish to know what would have beenTo you … who want to know whyTo you … who feel...

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Article 7

Do you remember being this innocent, being this young, being this naive?  Do you remember what life was like before life, well, happened? God bless the child. (Source: http://player.vimeo.com/)

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Article 6

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Vaclav Havel

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Unrequited Suffering – Be Still, My Soul

Pain.  I feel so close and so familiar to pain lately.  The past couple years have been so difficult, and this past year especially has been trying for me.  Sometimes it feels like this battle is...

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The Case of the Disappearing Liver Disease

This story from Stanford University School of Medicine is the most personally hopeful account of a medical observation I’ve heard in my lifetime.  As a patient who was forced into a liver transplant...

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Liver Mamas

“My name is Kai.  My last name is Fairy Princess!” she’ll tell you.  She’s a happy, spunky preschooler.  You’d never know that when she was 4 months old, Kai received a liver transplant because she had...

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You are not alone

I truly hope that regardless of where you are on your own journey: at the beginning of an exciting adventure, in the middle of the most difficult time in your life, or nearing the end of a dark season...

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Always hope

Today, I’m low on words. Two years ago tonight, I received a new liver, and my life was forever changed. I am so thankful for my donor and these 730 days of new life. Each day is a joy and a challenge,...

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Quiet

I haven’t said much lately because life has been pretty still for me. My heart has been quiet- there have been no major health scares and my loved ones are well. All is quiet here. Yet isn’t it funny...

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Second wind

Go download Eve Ensler’s new book, In the Body of the World: A Memoir.  Like right now. Profound.  I recommend this work of art to anyone who cares about or is involved in suffering, the human race, or...

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Quiet

I haven’t said much lately because life has been pretty still for me. My heart has been quiet- there have been no major health scares and my loved ones are well. All is quiet here. Yet isn’t it funny...

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One Year

With each day that passes, I’m more acutely aware that Scott and I have been actively trying to conceive our child for officially a year now. Perhaps the thought of “a year” makes it seem longer than...

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